De weg der historie
By J. Dek After reading 1633 I suddenly realized that I, in fact, knew hardly a thing about Dutch history. It isn’t taught in schools any more, because history now has to be a fun thing children can...
View ArticleEen in de was, een in de kast, een aan de bast
By Corrie de Groot A little book, illustrated with fine, well-executed pencil drawings on that perennial subject — women’s undies. Author: Corrie de Groot Title: Een in de was, een in de kast, een aan...
View ArticleThe Invention of Tradition
Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger I have been taught that Columbus discovered that the earth was round and not flat; and that he has been put to torture by the inquisition. That was not true; it was a...
View ArticleThe Orthodox Churches and the West
Volume 13 of Studies in Church History edited by Derek Baker Being temporarily outwitted by some hairy coding problems in Krita, I’m trying to clear some square metres of floor space by doing Fading...
View ArticleInheemse Erfenis, Continuïteit en Discontinuïteit in de Geschiedenis
By Ineke Strouken en Olivier Rieter Irina brought this book from the library; it’s a publication by the Nederlands Centrum voor Volkscultuur, the Dutch Centre for Folk Culture. The various papers in...
View ArticleDe Bloei van het Oosters Christendom
Olivier Clement The Orthodox Theologisch Vormingscentrum de Heilige Johannes de Theoloog has already translated many courses and books originally published by l’Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe...
View ArticleOosterse christenen binnen de wereld van de islam
Herman Teule en Anton Wessels (editors) This book is 438-page collection of small papers about the history of Christian churches in countries controlled by Islam, and about the present-day situation....
View ArticleEen kleine geschiedenis van wijn
By Rod Phillips A cheapo find in the local bookshop, Praamstra, at only 6,50 euros for a hard-back. Most books about wine are quite pretentious (like the old Het Boek van den Wijn) and seldom deal...
View ArticleThe Septuaginta, Scribes and Scholars
I am reading AnIntroduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes by Henry Swete. The Grand Rapids seminary (mildly famous in the Netherlands because they revere our Kuyper, while we have...
View ArticlePhotoshop LAB Color
By Dan Margulis Larry Marso wrote to the KImageShop mailing list in January 2006 about this book (two chapters are freely available). It deals with the LAB colorspace and the ways LAB makes it easy to...
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